Overall John Madden Football provides a full football experience. If you want an arcade style game then this should not be your first choice. Creating a team and coaching it can be much more satisfying than controlling the players.

The list of American football games grows ever longer, but none have had any impact since Cinemaware's TV Sports Football, in March 89. John Madden Football doesn't change that. True, it has an impressive quantity and variety of plays but its visuals are so bad and unrealistic, generating zero excitement and little involvement. Stick with a real pigskin.